Is beauty in proportion to ephemerality? Is the memory of something more beautiful than it’s original?
In reality things ‘fall apart’, and in a continuous climate of change, the cycles and seasons of an evolving natural environment mean that the memories of a particular place, the fleeting moments of beauty that we encounter quicken the spirit.

Using landscape as my starting point, I respond to the familiar order of space, image, structure and topography that is found in nature. Within my Art I explore these domains, considering the movement and energy in the landscape, and the way it’s monumentality as well as it’s delicacy makes an impression on the mind.

Through the use of large areas of open space and concentrated areas of gestural marks and colour I articulate my memories of place and time; resolved and simplified in their release. My aesthetic of pairing down and simplifying within form and colour describes the way we capture ambiguous remembered parts, the ‘essence’ of something as opposed to it’s specifics.

The process-based nature of my interests and art finds a perfect vehicle in printing, and I use many printing processes (etching, lithography, woodcut, screen-print) to explore and capture the themes I am working within. I feel that each process has it’s own distinct language and by manipulating and combining these, I can gradually build the visual outcome I am looking for. Because of this my prints are varied, each series communicating a different meeting of tonal and spatial qualities.

It has been said that “nature is on the inside”, expressing the notion that what is experienced and remembered is what really exists. By drawing simply on this, my work seeks to suggest and touch upon the beauty and transience of these memories, hoping that others are affected and ultimately can experience them also.